Brian Krebs continues his accomplished analytic alternation on the close apparatus of online ripoffs, today with a abysmal attending at underground freight-forwarders, alleged “Drops for stuff.” These casework use patsies recruited on Craigslist through a “work at home” betray to accept appurtenances bought with baseborn acclaim agenda numbers and advanced them on to crooks.

A archetypal bead will accept and reship amid two and four bales per day. The bales access with prepaid aircraft labels that are paid for with baseborn acclaim agenda numbers, or with hijacked online accounts at FedEx and the US Postal Service. Drops are amenable for analytical and acceptance the capacity of shipments, adhering the actual aircraft characterization to anniversary package, and sending them off via the adapted aircraft company.

One drops operation, dropforrent.net, allows “clients” to “rent” drops who accept active up for reshipping jobs. “Managers,” those who facilitate bead application scams, can acquire money by purchasing commodity that the reshipping operation can bound resell. Most reshipping operations seek customer electronics that can be calmly awash for cash, including laptop computers, cameras, acute phones and genitalia for sports cars. Dropforrent.com pays managers and audience 30 percent of the amount of laptops from ACER, HP, Toshiba, Dell, Compaq and Samsung, for example, and added than 40 percent of the retail amount for Apple, Sony, VAIO, Canon and Nikon products.